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4131. NHD37/f.72

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD37/f.72
Title:
Trinket Snake
Scope & Content:
Trinket Snake ‘Elaphe helena’ Original inscriptions: ‘Canara = Bullagundeedeega / 17th March 1806 at Killadee’ [with dimensions] Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note:
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799-1819
Extent:
1 Item

4132. NHD37/f.73

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD37/f.73
Title:
An Agamid Lizard
Scope & Content:
An Agamid Lizard Original inscriptions: ‘Kilpauk Gardens Madras 19 April 1816’ ‘1. A light yellow for the first ----- at color 2. With Umber to be shown separately each scale towards the end lighter 3. The Head of Umber with a little lake & blue 4. The Ear of a white color but still keepin...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799-1819
Extent:
1 Item

4133. NHD37/f.74

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD37/f.74
Title:
Indian Pangolin
Scope & Content:
Indian Pangolin ‘Manis crassicaudata’ Original inscriptions: [Recto: the front half of the animal is drawn] ‘Pangolin. Male. Light brown below the head & the scales of a Horn colour. It has ears, the scales have holes. The Eye Black & round of it as if it had sore eyes the same colour....
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1799-1819
Extent:
1 Item

4134. NHD38

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD38
Title:
Mackenzie Collection --------------------- NHD38 Fifty drawings in watercolour, pencil and pen-and-ink (6 unfinished) depicting plants from the Camat ...
Scope & Content:
Mackenzie Collection --------------------- NHD38 Fifty drawings in watercolour, pencil and pen-and-ink (6 unfinished) depicting plants from the Camatic. The drawings are bound in with blank paper to form an album of 53 + ii ff. measuring 15 by 9.25 inches. These drawings were collected in th...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1804-1807
Extent:
50 items

4135. NHD38/f.5

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD38/f.5
Title:
Dwarf Poinciana, Pride of Barbados, Red Bird of Paradise, Peacock Flower
Scope & Content:
Dwarf Poinciana, Pride of Barbados, Red Bird of Paradise, Peacock Flower Family Fabaceae, ‘Caesalpinia pulcherrima’ (L.) Sw. Original inscriptions: ‘Poinciana Cisalpinia Pulcherrima Lin / May 1805’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note:
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1804-1807
Extent:
1 Item

4136. NHD38/f.6

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD38/f.6
Title:
Oleander
Scope & Content:
Oleander Family Apocynaceae, ‘Nerium oleander’ L., (‘N. odorum’, ‘N. indicum’) Original inscriptions: ‘A Jungle Flower / Nerium…..Lin: Oleander / Hurdanhully Oct. 23 1804’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note:
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1804-1807
Extent:
1 Item

4137. NHD38/f.7

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD38/f.7
Title:
Jackfruit and a species of Pandanus
Scope & Content:
Jackfruit and a species of Pandanus ‘Artocarpus heterophyllus’ Lam. (Family Moraceae) and ‘Pandanus sp.’ (Family Pandanaceae) Original inscriptions: ‘Pandanas…..Lin / Moogala…..Telinga / Anandoor December 1804’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: Two species o...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1804-1807
Extent:
1 Item

4138. NHD38/f.8

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD38/f.8
Title:
A species of Bunchflower
Scope & Content:
A species of Bunchflower Family Melanthiaceae, ‘Melanthium sp’. Original inscriptions: ‘Plant found on the Summit of the hill at Santapoor on the SE limit of Koorg / March 15th 1805/ Lin: Melantheum’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note:
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1804-1807
Extent:
1 Item

4139. NHD38/f.9

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD38/f.9
Title:
Mysore Raspberry (Hill Raspberry) and Teak (possibly)
Scope & Content:
Mysore Raspberry (Hill Raspberry) and Teak (possibly) Family Rosaceae, ‘Rubus niveus’ Thunb., and Family Verbenaceae, ‘Tectona grandis’ Original inscriptions: ‘Wild Raspberry at Bullum / Lin: Rubus / April 1805 Munzerabad’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note: T...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1804-1807
Extent:
1 Item

4140. NHD38/f.10

Reference (shelfmark):
NHD38/f.10
Title:
Teak (possibly)
Scope & Content:
Teak (possibly) Family Verbenaceae, ‘Tectona grandis’ Original inscriptions: ‘At Cope May 1805’ Further inscriptions: Artist: Medium: Watercolour Size: Note:
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1804-1807
Extent:
1 Item